[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Opportunities Resetarits Lab

he Resetarits Lab at Texas Tech is seeking PhD. students to work on projects at the interface between community, behavioral, and evolutionary ecology. Current work focuses on the role of habitat selection in the assembly of communities and the dynamics of metacommunities, and the role of species

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Two items about NSF

A couple of thoughts on these two items. I think it is an interesting turn on the often top down management of funding that the NSB is actually changing the Broader Impacts criteria to come into line with the way PIs, reviewers, and panelists have interpreted Broader Impacts, which, at least

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Two items about NSF

to partner with you unless you are faculty or work for faculty, stifles those on this type of track. On 1/19/2012 11:42 AM, Resetarits, William wrote: Individual PIs collaborating and working with their students Additionally, data in several reports and articles has clearly shown that scientists

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Methods books list compiled

Juan, I missed your earlier post, but wanted to add this to your list. Doncaster, C. Patrick and Davey, Andrew J.H. (2007) Analysis of variance and covariance: how to choose and construct models for the life sciences, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 302pp. Cheers, Bill On

[ECOLOG-L] 19th Century American Science

A bit of blatant self promotion, in the spirit of inclusive fitness - but I frankly found the whole thing fascinating. From Anthem Press http://www.anthempress.com/index.php/an-anthology-of-nineteenth-century-american-science-writing.html American Science in the 19th century lagged behind Europe

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Ecology terminology Re: [ECOLOG-L] definition of native

Ecology has long been, and continues to be, terminologically challenged. 16 years ago several of us (Fauth et al. 1996) made what we felt was a valiant attempt to bring some clarity to a set of terms that would seem to lend themselves to a degree of precision, or at least clear functional

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Help with Analyzing Group Data

John, Their are lots of examples out there, but here are two papers describing experiments that are very similar to yours in many elements of design and execution, both involving fish, experimental streams, and comparisons that involve initial and final measurements on groups of individuals

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Jordan's rule

I have no direct info on this, but it seems the most likely scenario is a connection to the famous Ichthyologist and Evolutionary biologist David Starr Jordan. William J. Resetarits, Jr Professor Department of Biological Sciences Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409-3131 Phone: (806)

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Biodiversity Symposium - Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

I always try to keep my comments on ECOLOG positive, and that involves biting my tongue quite a bit, but this really is quite beyond the pale. 200 years of Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences of DREXEL UNIVERSITY! Really? The utter hubris involve in this simple title is staggering to

Re: [ECOLOG-L] correlation v. causation

Seems relevant at this time to remind ourselves of the statistical meaning of correlation vs its popular use and perhaps more importantly why Ecology and Evolutionary Biology became and continue to be experimental sciences whenever possible. From the classic stats text Steele and Torrie (1980 p

Re: [ECOLOG-L] The Audacity of Graduate School -Knowledge of Today Documentary

Well said on all counts (note I am a couple of posts behind already! - this is in response to Tom's original post). The advisor-advisee relationship is like most others, it is about fit. One size does not fit all, which is why it is difficult for Universities to screen advisors a priori, as has

Re: [ECOLOG-L] The Audacity of Graduate School -Some perspective

://allthingsbugs.com/about/people/ On 10/21/2012 10:42 AM, Resetarits, William wrote: Well said on all counts (note I am a couple of posts behind already! - this is in response to Tom's original post). The advisor-advisee relationship is like most others, it is about fit. One size does not fit all

[ECOLOG-L] Faculty Position at Texas Tech

Texas Tech Faculty Position in Physiological Ecology or Ecological Genetics Department of Biological Sciences Lubbock, Texas USA The Department of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship to begin in the 2013-2014 academic year.

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Environmental Biology and subordinate disciplines Re: [ECOLOG-L] Fwd: DEB Communications and Program Information Update

Just to provide a bit of clarification, especially for students and others new to the broad field of Ecology, relative to David's post on NSF-DEB (Division of Environmental Biology) and the subsequent questions/discussion (Probably David has more than enough to do managing Ecolog!). From the

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Bigfoot footage in TX (gag me).

Latest and most unexpected twist in this saga is the soon to be released story from the UK of the finding of Sasquatch DNA in Tesco's Lasagna BologneseŠ Sorry, couldn't resist... William J. Resetarits, Jr Professor Department of Biological Sciences Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas

Re: [ECOLOG-L] wildlife crossing sign design?

Folks in the UK have lots of experience with wildlife and livestock crossing signs of all types. You might check for sources there. William J. Resetarits, Jr Professor Department of Biological Sciences Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409-3131 Phone: (806) 742-2710, ext.300 Fax (806)

[ECOLOG-L] Post-docs in community/behavioral/evolutionary ecology

The Resetarits Lab at Texas Tech is seeking 1-2 post-docs to work on projects at the interface between community, behavioral, and evolutionary ecology. Current work focuses on the role of habitat selection in the assembly of communities and the dynamics of metacommunities, the role of species

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Hypothesis Testing in Ecology

This may seem like blatant self-promotion, but I think that the best synthesis of the interplay between natural history, experimentation, and theory is Earl Werner's chapter in our Experimental Ecology book from 1998 (Werner, E.E. 1998. Ecological experiments and a research program in

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Question about covariate.

This seems to me a rather serious issue, but one that comes up more frequently than it should. Let's assume the treatments were applied at random to the plots. There are two options with regard to pre conditions. One is to apply the treatments at random and simply remain blind to any

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Ecology Journals Impact Survey

I found this a very well-crafted and timely survey and would encourage participation. I look forward to seeing the results. William J. Resetarits, Jr Professor Department of Biological Sciences Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409-3131 Phone: (806) 742-2710, ext.300 Fax (806) 742-2963

Re: [ECOLOG-L] definitions in (community) ecology

Folks might want to take a look at this paper (after doing the survey!). Fauth, J. E., J. Bernardo, M. Camara, W. J. Resetarits, Jr., S.A. McCollum, and J. Van Buskirk. 1996. A conceptual approach to simplifying the jargon of community ecology. American Naturalist 147:282-286. It includes

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Why is the Shannon (or Shannon Weiner, Shannon-Weiner) diversity index abbreviated with the letter H?

The Shannon Index is derived from the paper below. It was originally developed as a measure of the information content of a signal. I had a pdf I would post, but the file is corrupted. Shannon, C. E. (1948) A mathematical theory of communication. The Bell System Technical Journal, 27, 379­423

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Analysis of habitat specificity and circular logic

Brian, I think this is part of the larger problem generated by trying to determine habitat preferences by where you find organisms. Distributions are where organisms persist, not where they prefer to be or where their fitness is highest; they are the outcome of the interactions between

Re: [ECOLOG-L] NSF Research Experience for Undergrads Eligibility

Fred, You should be eligible. I checked with a Program Director involved in the REU Site Program in the NSF Division of Biological Infrastructure and got the following response. The student is eligible to participate in the REU program (whether Sites or supplement). The student is enrolled in

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Marking Salamanders Question

Dorsal patterns, be they color patterns, lateral line pores (larval salamanders), or whatever, only work in captive populations e.g. in impermeable mesocosms or enclosures, or in natural populations in conjunction with some sort of permanent means of telling marked from unmarked individuals.

Re: [ECOLOG-L] contribution to biomass ~ body size

There is some evidence for vertebrates (as I recall it is from some of the Hubbard Brook work led by Gene Likens but I don't have the reference) that in New England forests, salamanders represented the greatest terrestrial vertebrate biomass per hectare. Salamanders (mainly plethodontidae and

Re: [ECOLOG-L] planned contrasts replacing 2-way ANOVA

Orthogonal sets of a priori contrasts do not require adjustment of p-values because they ARE simply components of the ANOVA. That is why they are so powerful for hypothesis testing. They are also greatly under utilized. William J. Resetarits Program Director Population and Community Ecology